Hotel

In the near future global warming has increased the earth’s temperature, until the point where methane gases in the ocean are released, worsening the greenhouse effect. Earth will turn into a boiling planet devoid of life, and there’s nothing man can do about it. Two projects are undertaken to ensure man survives in some form: the “ark” that will take human DNA to the closest habitable planet, and the “hotel,” a massive tower that stores DNA and bears responsibility for humanities sins. It is controlled by the smart AI Louis. This is his tale as he protects mankind over immeasurable gulfs of time. I think the epigraph at the beginning explains the story best: “A computer continues to live on in order to complete a mission in a world where all life has gone extinct. This is a record of those 27 million years of its heroic struggle.”